TEMPLETONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Templetonia mean? 

• TEMPLETONIA (noun)
  The noun TEMPLETONIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of Australian shrubs or subshrubs: coral bush

  Familiarity information: TEMPLETONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPLETONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Australian shrubs or subshrubs: coral bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Templetonia; Templetonia

Hypernyms ("Templetonia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Templetonia"):

coral bush; flame bush; Templetonia retusa (Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers)

Holonyms ("Templetonia" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)